“There is no substitute for a legitimate political process that will resolve the core issues driving the conflict,” the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Tor Wennesland, warned recently during a briefing with the UN Security Council. Sadly, though, Wennesland’s statement is built around the preservation of the two-state “solution” which would be abandoned if the UN was serious about a “legitimate political process”. In the absence of the UN seeking legitimate political alternatives, Wennesland’s briefing was wasted in urging the organisation to persist with its strategies of condemning Israel weakly and strengthening the Palestinian Authority. The UN is setting up the Palestinians for failure, as it always has since the Palestine Partition Plan of 1947. Decades … Continue reading The two-state paradigm is not a ‘legitimate political process’